>At 02:11 PM 10/6/03 -0400, Brian Siano wrote:
>>Kelley wrote:
>>
>>>Frankly, when people say that _anything_ is "socially
>>>constructed," I suspect that people are simply using
>>>quasi-technical terms to look sophisticated.
>>>
>>>do you have an alternative phrase that would make it more acceptable to you?
>>
>>Like I said: it'd help to define what it is you're _talking_ about
>>before we start assigning phrases to it.
>
>well, if you're interested, i'd sit down and start reading about
>idealism, then phenomenology. then read about the emergence of the
>strand of sociological thought known as "social constructionism."
That sounds too much like literary criticism. Ick.